0 the feeling of having no energy and enthusiasm and being unwilling to do anything needing effort: --
The children displayed the tell-tale listlessness of malnutrition.
A lack of iron in the body can lead to listlessness and a lack of concentration.
It is translated to apathetic listlessness; depression without joy.
It is often accompanied by pronounced diarrhoea, dehydration, oedema, polydipsia, anaemia, listlessness and weight loss.
Hookworms were popularly known as the germ of laziness because they produced listlessness and weakness in the people they infested.
Listlessness is disastrous to vigorous life.
One is not surprised, when one remembers what are the conditions existing in many parts of our great cities, that that listlessness, that lack of adventure, should exist.
We know that the listlessness and the apathy which it causes is terrifying.
From the first we were struck more by the aspect of depression among the unemployed and their listlessness than by any other signs of poverty.
Perhaps the problem is moral poverty, listlessness and no sense of direction.